Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-08-19
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

Forest fires are raging in many portions
of the state.
new wooden mill is TO be erected in
Traverse City this season.
Gas was struck in the Coldwater gas
well at depth of l,230 feet.
James Howell is in jail at Lansing on a
charge of pa.sn counterfeit money.
Rumored that stock company Is about
to take hold of the Flint Normal school.
Charles Cumming, resident of Bellevue
township, Eaton county, since 1886, is dead
Three miners were killed in the Cleve-
land mine near Ishpening, the other day
Lyon q Son paper dealers of Kalamazoo
and Plainwell, have been obliged TO sus-
pend.
A company will be formed at Allegan to
manufacture Duthie's patent oscillating
valves.
The first clover seed of the season
brought 81 per bushel at Lansing the 9th
er day.
Daniel Champenoy, a wealthy farmer of
Orange township, lonia county, suicided
a few days ago.
a big convention Of French societies of
the upper peninsula was held in Ishpem-
ing the other day.
John Cole is authority for the statement
that there is gas well in Lake Huron
few rods off Lakeport.
The annual reunion of the Eighteenth
Michigan Volunteer Infantry, will be held
in Tecumseh, August 20.
William Pippen, pseudo physician of
Grand Rapids ha, been arrested and fined
for not complying with the law.
Delegates from business mines associa-
tions throughout the state Will meet in
convention al Flint. September g.
Lambert Stinson, a well known farmer
of Casnovia, Kent county, suicided the
other morning by taking laudanum.
Senior a. Zalaya, minister of the French
Republic of Honduras has been visiting
Hon. j. NJ. Weston in Grand Rapids.
Coldwater will hold a special election
September 6 to vote upon the question of
bonding the city for 10000 for putting in
water works.
The Valley City planning mill and adjoin
ing property in Grand Rapids, to the
amount OF 1900, was destroyed by fire
the other day.
Jacob Schlenker Of Jackson was out
hunting, and the breech-pin of his gun
blew out injuring him so seriously that he
died the next day.
A new village is being plated by o. 5.
Bond of Toledo, on section /, $3.50, on the
east branch Of the Ontonagon river 1t
will be called Bond,
Chas Culbertson, LIKING near Tecumseh,
mpurns the loss of his barn and contents
obalc of xuh
burned the other night.
Alva Reid, agent for Aultman, Miller a
Co. OF Akron, Ohio, was arrested in Bat
tie Creek the other day, charged with en-
bezzling 500 of the firms money
Henry WIldman and his brother of East
Saginaw have been informed that e427, 900
awaits them in England as soon as they
can prove themselves the rightful heirs.
over sl2O,UD worth OF lumber at Lake
side, near Muskegon, was burned on the
10th inst The firemen worked bravely TO
subdue the flames, but were handicapped
by heavy winds.
The report Of the exports of hreadstufs
or the month of July, just issued by the
Chief OF the bureau of statistics, show that
tie exports from Detroit were valued at
tl25, $40; from Port Huron S9;}i, 5l9.
Pleuro-pneumonia in its worst form has
taken hold of the milch cows in Detroit
and vicinity Gov. Luce and the live
stock sanitary commission have been no.
titled Of the existence OF the plague.
A Flint a. Pere Marquette freight train
run over and killed Patrick Corbett near
East Saginaw the other morning. He was
eittino in "a cuIvert at the time He was
81 years old and the son of farmer living
near Birch Run.
The encampment recently held at Island
Lake is the best in all respects of any ever
held in the state. The rowdyism and
drunkenness which has heretofore charac-
terized the state encampment, was notice
able this year by its absence.
There is talk of extending the Pontiac
| Oxford d Port Austin railroad TO Port
Austin from Berne via tue valuable Gem.
emit quarries at Sou q and Pinnebog to the
excellent indstone and building stone
quarries just below Port Austin.
The cd Ninth Michigan infantry will
hold reunion at representative hall in
Lansing on August 81, and certificates for
reduced railroad fare can be secured by
applying 10 Capt. a. NJ. Dobbleaere, the
regimental secretary, at Lansing.
Cedar Springs, Sand Lake, several
places i'm the vicinity Of the Saginaws, st.
Ignace, Grand Haven, Fast Tawas and
various points in the Thumb" report dls-
sstrous fires entailing serious losses upon
the farmers and property holders
Capt. Lockwood, in charge Of the work